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Soon, I will offer you lots more superlatives about Canada. I will
also throw in enough facts and [some would say useless] information
that you will end up spending quite a few hours here, and not even
realise that you are also learning!
Feed your brain by coming back often to see what's new!
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The
total length of the Canada/U.S. boundary is 8,890 kilometres.
Canada's largest and one of the world's greatest earthquake, was
August 22, 1949, just
off the Queen
Charlotte Islands. The magnitude was a whopping 8.1 -- it was
definitely felt for miles around!
But the most destructive earthquake in Canada was on November 18, 1929
in the Atlantic Ocean, just
south of Newfoundland. It was a 7.2 magnitude. 27 people
drowned and so much damage done by
a tsunami on the Burin Peninsula, just off the island of Newfoundland.
Canada has the world's longest coastline at 202,080 kilometres.
I'm not sure this is something to be proud of or not, but the fastest-built
highway is the Alaska
Highway. It runs from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Fairbanks,
Alaska.
The
last two people executed in Canada were
Ronald Turpin, 29, and Arthur Lucas, 54, convicted in separate murders,
at 12:02 am on December 11, 1962 at the Don Jail in Toronto.
The last woman to be hanged in Canada
was Marguerite Pitre on January 9, 1953, for her part in the Albert Guay
affair.
Hanging was the only form of capital punishment ever used in
Canada.
In 1976, capital
punishment for murder was removed from Canada's Criminal Code, although
it could have been used under
the National Defence Act until 1998.
And for some quotes by Canadians
and/or about Canada
Click here!
For
some great Canadian quizzes, I highly recommend
Historica.
Want to
see more superlatives and trivia? Have any suggestions? Don't hesitate to
let me know what you think? Just write me at
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